WMC Honors Legislators in Their Pocket

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Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), the state’s largest business group, has hailed all of the nearly seven dozen GOP legislators for voting in favor of the group’s pro-business policy and spending wish list during the 2015-16 legislative session.
WMC Honors Legislators in Their Pocket

October 20, 2016

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), the state’s largest business group, has hailed all of the nearly seven dozen GOP legislators for voting in favor of the group’s pro-business policy and spending wish list during the 2015-16 legislative session.

WMC is a heavyweight among the hundreds of special interests groups that push their agendas at the State Capitol. The group refuses to disclose how much it spends on most of its activities, which usually consist of negative broadcast ads to smear Democratic candidates and support Republicans and conservatives. But the Democracy Campaign estimates the group has spent more than $26 million since 2006 to elect governors and lawmakers who will support WMC’s core agenda of lower business taxes, more local control, weaker environmental and consumer protections, and reduced worker rights, protections and pay.

WMC’s legislative scorecard showed that 65 of the legislature’s 82-member GOP majority voted WMC’s way 100 percent of the time on 47 issues. The remaining 17 Republicans voted with WMC 87 percent to 96 percent of the time. All of the legislature’s 50 Democrats scored low ratings, between 5 percent and 21 percent.

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